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Personnel news
DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Prof. Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics as DIW Research Professor for an intiial period of three years with effect from December 1. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment.
18.11.2009
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DIW Discussion Papers 948 / 2009
The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of cross-country analyses for conflict costs. In addition to the existing cross-country literature, a number ...
2009| Olaf J. de Groot, Tilman Brück, Carlos Bozzoli
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DIW Discussion Papers 944 / 2009
This paper examines the significance of different fundamental regimes by applying various monetary models of the exchange rate to one of the politically most important exchange rates, the exchange rate of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro (the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12. Applying a novel time-varying coefficient estimation approach, we come up with interesting properties of our ...
2009| Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke, Michael Kühl
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DIW Discussion Papers 947 / 2009
In this paper, we develop the game-theoretic electricity market model ElStorM that includes the possibility of strategic electricity storage. We apply the model to the German electricity market and analyze different realistic and counterfactual cases of strategic and non-strategic pumped hydro storage utilization by different players. We find that the utilization of storage capacities depends on the ...
2009| Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert
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SOEPpapers 235 / 2009
Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the labour market or leaving parental home are events with important consequences for the economic well-being of young adults. In this paper, the interrelationship between employment, residential emancipation and poverty dynamics is studied for eight European countries by means of an econometric ...
2009| Sara Ayllón
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Monographien
1985| Uta Möbius, Herbert Wilkens
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DIW Discussion Papers 644 / 2006
This study is intended to assess the introduction of increased capitalization requirements for Ukrainian insurance firms. To do so, we employ up-to-date frontier efficiency analysis. The analysis suggests that an increase in size occurs not only because of the regulator's requirements, but also because all scale inefficient firms have been persistently operating under increasing returns to scale. Additionally, ...
2006| Oleg Badunenko, Bogdana Grechanyuk, Oleksandr Talavera
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Cross-country or cross-industry studies of technology diffusion typically estimate how independent factors affect diffusion speed or timing, often based on a two-stage approach. In many applications, however, countries (industries) differ most in the saturation level of diffusion. In a single-stage econometric approach to a standard diffusion model, we therefore estimate how the saturation level covaries ...
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Applied Economics
43 (2011), 14, S. 1737-1748
| Jonathan Beck, Michal Grajek, Christian Wey
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study models maximum temperatures in Switzerland monitored in twelve locations using the generalised extreme value (GEV) distribution. The parameters of the GEV distribution are determined within a Bayesian framework. We find that the parameters of the underlying distribution underwent a substantial change in the beginning of the 1980s. This change is characterised by an increase both in the level ...
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Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
24 (2010), 2, S. 311-326
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Rainald Ötsch, Claudia Kemfert, Carlo C. Jaeger, Armin Haas, Hans Kremers